Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Half of all Seattle Jobs Now Working Remotely - Can this continue? I Seattle Real Estate Podcast" video.

  1.  @NotShowingOff  : It's a mixed bag. Champagne liberals making a LARPer lifestyle. Commie malcontents. Anarchist malcontents. People living off the state teat. Trust fund hippies. Activists. Goons who just want to loot, burn and mess with people...
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  2. It's a lot easier to stick to 9-to-5 schedule when you're in a cubicle watching the clock. At home, you're more likely to not notice and think more in terms of getting things done than what time it is, or the short dress the hottie 2 cubicles down is wearing. We'll see what happens in education. I think the lock-downers in education are shocking parents out of their complacency. "If we're going online, why use the local school, when there's a better one in the next county or state? There've been online learning management systems (LMSs) available for years, and a lot of parents are discovering that home schooling isn't the near-impossible task it once was. You can shop for education products the same way you shop on Amazon. And you don't need a teaching certificate to ensure that your child is being well-served. Easy to track their progress. And if you don't like how you're being served in math, it's $100 to choose the competing product. I can see the idea of sending your kids to school, where they'll be stuck in a room full of snot-noses spreading whatever bug there is to every family in the district. Plus, those ZOOM sessions give parents an intimate understanding of just what's going on in the classroom; just what's being taught. Going remote has brought parents into the classroom. It's a delightfully ironic twist. institutions do this to protect themselves, but it very well spell their doom! COVID restrictions favor big over small. This is creating a much greater loyalty to small, local businesses, who are being destroyed. It'll get worse before it gets better, and the global supply chain isn't going away any time soon. But there's a trend of "localism" underway. Locally grown foods. Local businesses. Living off the grid (or on the grid, just not using it as much). A growing distaste for the big box stores, etc. Conservatives have been arguing for school choice for a long time (since Reagan, in fact). This could be the tipping point. This may be the point at which society finally rolls over the teacher unions and establishment education interests.
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  3. It's a generally positive development, in the direction of a greener society. But Green New Deal is an appalling, authoritarian approach. Telecommuting got a nice shot in the arm due to the authoritarian lock-downs. Kind of a silver lining.
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  4. Mid-management loves "conferences" and "workshops." It's basically a paid semi-vacation on the company/taxpayer's dime. I used to go to math conferences, and was always appalled at the drinking and debauchery that went on.
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